That song makes me really uncomfortable, like anxiety inducing. Neat! Always cool to see how different music makes different people vibe certain ways.
Here's a youtube link if anyone else is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLvFsP1izS4
I can't imagine listening to that style as a regular thing, but I could easily picture that as "alien music" for a movie or atmospheric background. Not 'musical' as I would think of it, but clearly recognizable as music for very different ears or mental structures.
Interesting! I'd like to see a version where the double-time track is fading in continuously, instead of arriving all at once at the beginning of a measure (which would be a closer analogue of the Shepard Tone). Can't quite tell if the other reply is an example of that.
Reminds me of the "getting short of breath" music in Sonic, although that doesn't use any fancy tricks.
Re:Shepard Tone
by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:01AM
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Here's an example: https://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de/MusicTechnology/uploads/826/Ri...
I was going to say that this one (which sounds like a not that short loop) and the "fold4, wrap5" (which just sounds like a horrible short loop to me) didn't give me the same illusion, but then I listed to the one in the Wikipedia article again and it didn't work for me this time either (short loop). I think the Bach linked above broke the illusion for me or else it only works for a very limited time.
The song "Fold4, Wrap5" by Autechre is a cool example. It's not hard to see how it works, but it's a delightful effect regardless. Each bar has a point at which the beat shifts to a double-time version of itself, while the tempo of the track constantly decreases so that the double-time rhythm transitions back to the original rhythm.